What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Care Coordinator position at Cedar Recovery?
Cedar Recovery, LLC is an ASAM Level I outpatient treatment facility that employs an array of evidenced-based treatment modalities to provide an integrated model of care of medical, counseling, and therapeutic interventions to treat every patient’s individual needs and promote long-term sustainable recovery from substance use disorder. While Cedar Recovery provides care for all substance use disorders, it has a primary focus on treating opioid use disorder with medications such as Buprenorphine and/or Naltrexone (MAT).
The responsibilities for this position include the management of patient administrative functions, including, but not limited to the following:
- Greeting patients, assisting patients with check-in, answering phones, performing new patient intakes and scheduling new patient appointments
- Executing and overseeing coordination of care documents on behalf of patients
- Sending and tracking Prior Authorizations including maintaining tracking spreadsheet
- Maintaining proficient computer manageability for scheduling, changing, and canceling appointments
- Acts as support for the Office Coordinator and Medical Assistant
- Reports to the Office Coordinator
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED Effective Knowledge The ability to navigate and effectively use Microsoft Office, Google Drive, and our Electronic Medical Records system.
- Accountability and Self-Management Accepts personal accountability for work responsibilities
- Works independently without day-to-day guidance from the supervisor
- The ability to manage multiple projects that meet the standards of Cedar Recovery.
- Teamwork and Leadership The ability to collaborate and work with colleagues to achieve the Cedar Recovery mission of solving the opioid epidemic.
- Communication Successfully communicate with employees at all levels of the organization on a regular basis – including via face to face, email and other technologies utilized by Cedar Recovery.
- Respectfully communicate with patients, teammates, vendors, suppliers, and pharmacy representatives.
- Foster open dialogue and actively listen to others in order to build and maintain effective and respectful working relationships throughout Cedar Recovery.
- Innovation & Problem Solving Recommends, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement processes that have an impact on the mission of Cedar Recovery.
- Applies Creative thinking to develop new solutions.
Job Type: Full-time
Monday-Thursday (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
Friday (9 a.m. – 3 p.m.)
Salary: From $19.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- 401K
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Customer service: 1 year (Preferred)
- Medical terminology: 1 year (Preferred)
- Computer skills: 2 years (Preferred)
Salary : $20